Will Richards

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEPARTMENT -accompanist
Community Programs

Percussionist Will Richards is a versatile performer and educator, with a career spanning orchestral performances, jazz, musical theater, contemporary classical music, rock, pop, and more. A frequent performer on Broadway, he has played on The Lion King, MJ, A Beautiful Noise, and Elf, and off Broadway as the drum/percussion chairs of Facings and the second national tour of On Your Feet!. 

He is an alumnus of the Manhattan School of Music, which he attended on a Presidential Scholarship. His teachers have included Christopher Lamb (New York Philharmonic), Duncan Patton (Metropolitan Opera), Kyle Zerna (New York Philharmonic), She-e Wu (Percussion Soloist), Rolando Morales-Matos (Lion King), Wilson Torres (MJ),  Michael Folker (Chicago Philharmonic), and James Ross (Chicago Symphony).